In a maelstrom of evil, can a new magistrate, samurai Mochizuki Koheita, with a reputation like an alley cat, bring order to the town of Horisoto, or is he, too a corrupt villain looking to gain wealth from the oppressed people? From the pen of famed samurai author Yamamoto Shugoro, this exciting tale turns the tables on the standard samurai story with a unique lead character previously portrayed in Ichikawa Kon’s “Dora Heita.”

Akira, Takeshi, Yasu, and Shun are a gang of four close friends, all of whom were core members of th...

A daughter is constantly overshadowed by her famous father, but she is determined to make her own ma...

Shinohara, a young bodybuilder, joins a para-military sect in northern Japan. His instructor, Takiz...

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...

A member of an elite paramilitary counter-terrorism unit becomes traumatized after witnessing the su...

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...

Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided ...

Brash, loudmouthed and opportunistic, Kikujiro is the unlikely companion for Masao who is determined...

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...

The Way of Drama unfolds in the world of kabuki in Osaka, but also addresses the politics of popular...

Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and...

Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are ...

The first theatrical release, titled Bonobono, opened in theaters on 1993-11-13. The film has since ...

Looking for Angelina is based on one of the most important murder trials in Canada. Angelina Napolit...

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...

Young Olga Ahrendt almost succeeded in attempting suicide. She had thrown herself in front of a tram...
A boy living in underdeveloped Welsh village hopes for a better time of his homeland when seeing the...

The film takes place in the Swedish capitol Stockholm during the year 1809. War has ravaged Europe c...

The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, wh...